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A Forecaster book proposal
By Kevin L. Michel
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Life & relationships · A BOOK PROPOSAL

The Price of Being Easy to Live With

How to Stop Keeping the Peace at Your Own Expense

This proposed book would explore the private cost of being the person who adapts first, asks last, and makes disappointment disappear. It would examine how affection, usefulness, and fear can become tangled together, then develop practical ways to express preferences, share responsibility, and tolerate the discomfort of being known. Through recognizable situations at home, at work, and among friends, readers would consider which compromises express their values and which quietly erase them. The aim is a more honest kind of closeness: relationships with room for your needs, your limits, and the person behind your reliability.

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Inside the proposed edition

  1. The person who never makes a fuss
  2. Loved, useful, or afraid to disappoint?
  3. The bill for keeping everyone comfortable
  4. Learning to have a preference out loud
  5. A boundary that sounds like you
  6. Letting someone else carry the awkwardness
  7. When a relationship resists your return
  8. A peace you are included in
The idea behind the book +

Reliability is easy to praise and difficult to question, especially when a family or workplace has come to depend on it. This proposal asks how to keep generosity alive without making one person's silence the price of everybody else's comfort.